Sharon Lynn Kedzierski, a 47-year-old white woman, was found dead on April 9, 1992, near the Universal Truck Mall parking lot in Austintown, Ohio. Her body had been there about 24 hours; the official cause of death was listed as asphyxiation, with multiple blunt force injuries to the head, face, and upper chest. She had been missing since October 1989 and remained unidentified until DNA analysis in 2013 matched her to her daughters.

Investigators believed she had been killed elsewhere and dumped at the truck stop; her case was tied to a pattern of truck stop homicides. In the early 1990s police had a suspect, Dennis Hetzel, a former truck driver who was secretly indicted in December 1993 and later linked to bite-mark evidence on the body. Years later another suspect, long-haul truck driver Samuel W. Legg III, was indicted in 2019 after DNA evidence connected him to Kedzierski’s death and to other cases. Legg pleaded not guilty and his trial was scheduled to begin in April.

If anyone knew Sharon, her movements between October 1989 and April 1992, or saw her near truck stops in that region, please share any information that might help fill gaps in the timeline.